FOCUS is an acronym used to help creators of WebQuest site takes all the right steps when developing their first WebQuest. F stands for find quality sites. When providing resources for your students, it is the teacher's job to search sites that will provide the best and most interesting information for the student. The sites need to be engaging and educational at the same time. Searching deep into the web will allow you to find articles that will be beneficial for the students to analyze. O stands for orchestrate learners and resources. This means that to be willing to work around and with the resources you have. Plan your time wisely and incorporate other activities if only a few computers are available for use. Constructing groups and delegate different responsibilities to each student. C stands for challenge your learners. The whole idea behind WebQuest is to unlock higher order thinking skills. The information that we present should be asking the learner what he or she can do with the information as opposed to simply understanding the data. U stands for uses of medium. This simply means that as a teacher, be willing to explore and incorporate multiple mediums in your WebQuest. Videos, articles, documents and pictures are all useful tools that can help a student better solve the problem. Finally, S stands for scaffolding the experience. Scaffolding the experience for the student is a way to help guide the students thinking and understanding of the data. Providing templates, writing prompts or production ideas, will help the student understand how he or she can use the data to solve the problem.
Each of the steps stated above are extremely important and beneficial for a teacher to think about when creating WebQuest for classroom use. Thinking of all the important components of a WebQuest will allow the teacher to construct a meaningful educational experience for his or her students.
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